masks. somebody s got to turn to somebody and say whose job and role and responsibility. you would think the health and human services secretary would be somewhere in the room. but who do we who are we supposed to turn to? and you look at an agency like hhs and the vast portfolio that they oversee, everything from cms, medicare, medicaid, we saw under this democratic house massive cuts to medicare and medicaid to pay for their social justice warrior programs. and then you get still no word out of the secretary on this, and again, with the border, no words to be said even though there was outrage about the unaccompanied children and their treatment, or lack thereof, under this administration, and again, that s an hhs responsibility. now they re talking about biden s signature at home testing program. no contracts have been signed.
authorizing. it s called paxlovid, which could potentially reduce infection by 90% if you take it at home. the white house is hoping this will help the u.s. deal with this as it moves into a situation where americans are going to increasingly have to get used to do fact that this is going to be with us for quite some time, that s not going to be a quick end at this point to the pandemic. that s something we expect to hear government officials discussing when they hold this white house covid task force briefing any moment now. it s probably going to be the last one that we ll see this year. and it s coming as the administration is really facing all of these questions about why did they wait so long to get this home testing program up and running. is it really any good if it s not going to be until sometime earlier next year? we don t even know when exactly these tests will be able to go
The main reason the idea did not garner much interest among the board members is that between the time it posted the Wednesday morning meeting and the time it actually met, the commonwealth announced that its Stop the Spread testing program is expanding to three sites in Berkshire County, including North Adams. Like everything else going on with COVID these days, events have moved beyond this, Williamstown Health Inspector Jeff Kennedy told the board. Since this meeting was scheduled, Berkshire Health System and Southwestern Vermont Medical Center both stepped up a lot of their testing. I m not sure if this is applicable to the Board of Health anymore.
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